/**
 * OpenKM, Open Document Management System (http://www.openkm.com)
 * Copyright (c) 2006-2012 Paco Avila & Josep Llort
 * 
 * No bytes were intentionally harmed during the development of this application.
 * 
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
 * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
 */

package com.openkm.kea.stopwords;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Class that can test whether a given string is a stop word.
 * Lowercases all words before the test.
 * 
 * @author Eibe Frank (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
 * @version 1.0
 */
public abstract class Stopwords implements Serializable {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = -930038504373236219L;
	
	/**
	 * Returns true if the given string is a stop word.
	 */
	public abstract boolean isStopword(String str);
}
